View full sizeJOHN C. WHITEHEAD/The Patriot-NewsView of "C" block at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill.

That includes $750,000 in new spending for a program called the “County Jail Re-entry Project” that would pay counties to house prisoners about to leave the prison system as part of their re-entry into the community.

Corbett’s budget also includes an increase for inmate education and training, as well as a separate $7 million increase for Probation and Parole for additional parole officers “to address the backlog of eligible parolees and to transition them into productive opportunities.”

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